Candidate Matches Round 2 Game 3

Exciting game 3

Gata Kamsky had a very strange game against Boris Gelfand. The American GM lost more than 20 minutes on move 5. The game was going equal, but later on Gata entered in severe time trouble. He had 12 seconds for 6 moves! He managed to make it to the time control. However, the American GM was down on material and lost the game, thus giving 1 point advantage to Boris Gelfand.

Peter Leko swept away Bareev to take a solid advantage in round 2. The move 11... b6 left Bareev in a very inactive position and Black lost chances to castle. Evgeny was trying to set up a good defence around the Black king, but scrambled under the pressure on move 41 when White was heading for solid material advantage.

Rublevsky and Grishchuk played an opposite color bishops game. Rublevsky fell into time trouble and was two pawns down before the time control, but he was able to hold the game to a draw.

Aronian - Shirov was the longest game of the day. The endgame Knight proved to be stronger than the bishop and White was dominating the game. In the final stages Aronian missed to win a Rook and Pawn against Rook game, thus failing to take stable advantage.

Levon Aronian (ARM) - Alexei Shirov (ESP) 2 - 1
Peter Leko (HUN) - Evgeny Bareev (RUS) 2,5 - 0,5
Alexander Grischuk (RUS) - Sergei Rublevsky (RUS) 2 - 1
Gata Kamsky (USA) - Boris Gelfand (ISR) 1 - 2